National Science Foundation
Strategies for Broadening
Participation
DMR Facilities Directors’ Meeting
Tallahassee, FL
September 20, 2007
Roosevelt Y. Johnson, Ph.D.
Program Director, AGEP
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Overview
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Role of Diversity and Inclusiveness
Strategic and Tactical Thinking
Areas of Opportunity
Auxiliary Services
Bottom Line
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The Role of Diversity
• If we don’t have a diverse workforce, we limit the set
of life experiences that an engineering team will have
and, consequently, we limit the creativity that could
be brought to bear.”
– William Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering
• Diverse participation encourages creativity, stability
and resilience. Enlisting a broad range of minds and
backgrounds … yields products and services that
benefit a broad range of consumers. Broad
participation benefits business too.
– National Center for Women in Information Technology
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Strategic and Tactical Thinking
• Comprehensive vs Cherry Picking
• Collaboration… Co-investment…
Leveraging
• Capacity-Building Infrastructure
Programs at NSF
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EHR Invests in
Building Capacity
• Building educational capacity
– LSAMP
– AGEP
• Building research capacity
– HBCU-UP
– TCUP
– CREST
– EPSCoR
Louis Stokes Alliances for
Minority Participation (LSAMP)
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Increase the number of minority students
who enroll and complete degrees in
baccalaureate STEM programs
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Provides research experiences, academic support
services, mentoring
Bridge to the Doctorate (initiated in 2003)
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Connecting new LSAMP graduates to doctoral
degree programs
Alliances for Graduate
Education and the Professoriate
(AGEP)
Increase significantly the number of
underrepresented students pursuing
advanced studies and receiving STEM
Ph.D. degrees
 Increase significantly the number of
minorities entering the professoriate
as role models and mentors
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Historically Black Colleges and
Universities Undergraduate Program
(HBCU-UP)
and
Tribal Colleges and Universities
Program (TCUP)
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Improve the quality of STEM education
Increase participation and success in
undergraduate programs
Increase access to undergraduate research
opportunities
Centers for Research Excellence
in Science and Technology
(CREST)
Build the research competitiveness of
minority-serving institutions
 Increase the recruitment and
retention of individuals from diverse
backgrounds in STEM study and
STEM careers
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Experimental Program to
Stimulate Competitive Research
(EPSCoR)
Joint program of the NSF and several
U.S. states and territories
 Promotes the development of the
states' science and technology
resources through partnerships with
universities, industry, and
government, and the Federal R&D
enterprise
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Capacity-Building Infrastructure
Who has it?
LSAMP: 34 Alliances, >450
institutions
 AGEP: 22 Alliances, >100 institutions
 HBCU-UP: 38 active awards to
HBCUs
 TCUP: 18 active awards at Tribal
Colleges and Universities
 CREST: 14 active sites at minorityserving institutions
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Areas of Opportunity
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K-12
Undergraduate
Graduate
Postdoctoral
Faculty
• Outreach
• Enrichment
• Educational
Development
• Professional
Advancement
• Career Enhancement
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Where can you find help?
• Institute for
Broadening
Participation (IBP)
• Proactive
Networking and
Communications
• Southern Regional
Education Board
• Student Talent
Access
• HRD Joint Annual PI • Comprehensive
Meeting
Networking
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Contact Information
• IBP
• www.agep.us
• SREB
• http://sreb.org/programs/dsp/in
stitute/instituteindex.asp
• https://www.edjassociates.com/
jam07/home.asp
• JAM
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Bottom Line
Commit…
Plan…
Collaborate…
Evaluate…
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My Contact Information...
Dr. Roosevelt Y. Johnson
Program Director, AGEP
National Science Foundation
Division of Human Resource Development
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 815
Arlington, VA 22230
Phone: 703-292-4669
Fax: 703-292-0918
Email: [email protected]